Official Site:Â Dungeons and Dragons Online
Studio:Â Standing Stone Games, formerly Turbine/WB Interactive Entertainment; published by Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date:Â February 28, 2006
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Perfect Ten: 10 stock MMO mobs from crummy to cool
My pet theory of MMOs is that they exist in a gaming multiverse with scores of unseen connections. This explains why so many of...
Dungeons and Dragons Online teases 2022’s Isle of Dread expansion
Who's ready for a new Dungeons and Dragons Online expansion? It looks like one is on the way for spring 2022 called Isle of...
Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?
This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...
Perfect Ten: How MMOs explain away our infinite resurrections
Why? Why do we die in MMOs and keep coming back to life? Are we in a type of hell defined by endless combat...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 346: Endwalker, ArcheAge, Lost Ark, and New World
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Endwalker delay, WoW's financials and player council, ArcheAge's new publisher, Gamigo's new MMORPG, Lost Ark's beta, New World's state, DDO update 51, Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands, Harry Potter Wizard Unite's sunset, and Crowfall's freemium update, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallen Earth, City of Heroes, and Star Wars Galaxies, plus a mailbag topic on worry about the future of the genre.
How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes
If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Update 51 and its epic destinies revamp has officially gone live
Today is the day when players of Dungeons and Dragons Online can take hold of their destiny and not be confused by the whole...
Dungeons and Dragons Online offers up its latest preview of the epic destinies overhaul
Prepare for the blast and shockwave of Dungeons and Dragons Online's Update 51 because when this puppy lands, it's going to shake up the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 343: Mysterious and spoopy
Justin and Bree discuss Halloween MMOs, Path of Exile, Star Trek Online, Book of Travels' early access, DDO's freebies, LOTRO's latest patch, and the FFXIV Endwalker media tour, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, New World, and Book of Travels, plus a mailbag question on orbital video game enjoyment.
Dungeons and Dragons Online gives away 48 quest packs, puts expansions on sale
What's better than 47 free quest packs handed to you with no strings attached? That's obvious: 48 free quest packs. Believe it or not,...
EverQuest and more Daybreak MMOs roll out Halloween 2021
EverQuest is having a good week: First Daybreak announced the game's next expansion, Terror of Luclin, and now it's rolled out the annual Halloween...
Dungeons and Dragons Online changes up its Halloween event to make it more flexible
Dungeons and Dragons Online's popular Halloween event, the Night Revels, made a return with this week's Update 50.4. But it's not the same-old Night...
One Shots: Might as well be staring at the sun
Not surprisingly, there are hordes of Massively OP readers crawling over every square inch of the recently launched New World, often with their cameras...
Choose My Adventure: It’s bear time in Lord of the Rings Online
It has been a few years since I made my way back to Lord of the Rings Online. I remember being around the game...
One Shots: Looking down on the world
Do you ever get that feeling like someone else is looking down on you, but then you're like, nah, that's all in my head?...
Dungeons and Dragons Online to revamp epic destinies ‘from the ground up’
You know that when an MMO developer tells you to "buckle up" before explaining changes coming in a patch, we're in for a wild...
One Shots: Boom, said the world
You'd think that a world that's already been nuked into a radioactive wasteland wouldn't need any additional bombs lobbed at its surface, but several...
Dungeons and Dragons Online seeks out a new producer, improves its grouping tool
Seeing as how getting a producer has helped to kickstart communication and organization over at Lord of the Rings Online, SSG apparently figured that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 334: New World’s fourth delay
Justin and Bree discuss Bless Unleashed's PC launch, Blizzard's financials and Brack's departure, New World's latest delay, Dungeon and Dragons Online, the gender and survey, with adventures in Ship of Heroes, LOTRO, FFXIV, Albion, CoH, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on deadly difficulty in LOTRO and why FFXIV has become the landing zone for WoW refugees.
Perfect Ten: The top 10 non-traditional MMO fantasy races
Elves. Dwarves. Humans. Halflings. Gnomes. Hobbits. Dark elves. High elves. Half-elves. Wood elves. Keebler elves. Elvish impersonators.
Are you as tired as I am of...
